Richard Head, English Rogue (1665) - Revision history

Olaf Simons at 10:25, 15 July 2008

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	==Links==		==Links==
	*[Richard Head] ''The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant''. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=15585368&FILE=../session/1210091335_12425&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=default EEBO] [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1666_Head_The_English_Rogue.pdf Anglistik Server Oldenburg]		*[Richard Head] ''The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant''. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=15585368&FILE=../session/1210091335_12425&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=default EEBO] [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1666_Head_The_English_Rogue.pdf Anglistik Server Oldenburg]
	*[A shortened ~~cheap book~~ version:] ''The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world.'' London, 1679. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12253472&FILE=../session/1210087652_12132&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR EEBO]		*[A shortened chapbook version:] ''The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world.'' London, 1679. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12253472&FILE=../session/1210087652_12132&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR EEBO]

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Chap. III

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			He lived on blackberries and nuts sleeping under the Canopy of Heaven; he was sad to leave his heartbroken mother. He found a sleeping place in a barn, but was scared to be awaken by strange creatures. it turned out that these creatures were gypsies; they offered him to accompany them but he did not trust them longer than that night.

	===Chap. IV===		===Chap. IV===

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Chap. II

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			At the age of about five he lured one of his father’s turkeys in a trap and beat him to death because the turkey did not like his red coat. His mother was not troubled by this because she loved him so much. He and his mother leaved Ireland because it was not save anymore, his father was left behind. His mother took care of them by using her eloquent tongue and brains. He was ashamed to go to school because he was not able to read until the age of ten and the quickly became a bookworm. For his small faults he was whipped with the rod, he was careful that his thefts and rougeries were not discovered. He was send to a boarding school and kept low on food to improve his wits. He stole money from his master but finally was discovered to be the thief and was punished hard by his master (whipped with a Cat of Nine-tails and the wounds washed with vinegar or water and salt). The master told his mother about his faults, but the master know only a tenth of those childish rougeries - finally he run away.

	===Chap. III===		===Chap. III===

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Chap. XIII

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			Having returned into his master’s service he decides to make the world believe he had really changed, but secretly plans “to build [his] future estate upon the ruine of other men” (p. 12). He turns to religion, which is in his opinion the best way to gain his mistress’s favour and confidence and succeeds therein. She gives him many signs of her desire and devotion and one days tells her husband that she would like to visit a friend and that their servant (she calls him Thomas) was to accompany her. While crossing a lake with a rowboat, she explains her love to him more openly than ever before. He first resists politely, but then lets events take their course. At night, she slips out of her bed and into his.

			The same night, her husband is woken up by the noises she made when returning to her own bed. He mistakes these noises and the apparition of spirit in white sheets as the presence of a ghost in his chamber. Therefore he decides to sleep in his wife’s chamber from then on.

			A couple of nights pass, when the cat of the house gets stuck with her tail on a hook in the cellar and therefore makes horrible noise. The master takes this as a proof for his first encounter, but then is shown the true source of this moaning spirit. He is so relieved that from the next night on, he slept in his own chamber again, wherefore the mistress and the protagonist could continue their nightly affair.

	===Chap. XIV===		===Chap. XIV===

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Chap. I

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			THe protagonists grandfather was a farmer who decided that his eldest son (protagonists father) should learn so long, till he could read any printed or written hand. But he plunged himself over head and heals in all manners of sensuality and at last was expelled from college and was forced to return to his father. After no long time a gentle (and wealthy) woman fell in love with him and got married. After her portion was spended the protagonists father had to work. The Protagonist about his life: "It was always my disposition rather to die by the hand of a common Executioner, than want my revenge, though ever so slightly grounded. ... Had I then died, no other guilt could have rendred me culpable before Gods Tribunal, but what was derivative before Adam."

	===Chap. II===		===Chap. II===

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Preface

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			The protagonist is not named, the author does not want the protagonist to recognize himself. The story is a collection of narrations told by rouges. Any resemblance to other rouge storys are possible but not on purpose. But the story is not like a greek myth - it is based on facts rather than myths.

	===Chap. I===		===Chap. I===

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Chap. XII [2] p.2-8

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			He turns to stealing as his new profession and steals a good cloak. Afterwards he gambles with some ordinary people and wins some good money. He then writes a letter to his former master that he regrets running away from him and begs his forgiveness. His master accepts this apology and lets him return into his service.

	===Chap. XIII===		===Chap. XIII===

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Chap. XI p.2-1

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			He meets a man who offers him good work on a merchant‘s ship and afterwards on the merchant’s plantation in Virginia. He is also offered food and lodging for the two days he has to wait until the ship arrives. But he knows that this is how galley slaves are taken. When he is taken from the lodging to the ship he manages to overturn the rowboat in which he was taken. He escapes and eventually ends up in the company and bed of a woman who felt sorry at the miserable sight of him.

	===Chap. XII [2] p.2-8===		===Chap. XII [2] p.2-8===

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Chap. XII p.100

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			The protagonist goes to London, where he meets an acquaintance, who tells him the story of how he mistook his mistress’s laughter for signs of affection. He explains his love to her in a letter. She answers this letter with a note that she would leave her bed chamber open for him, so he could come to her. However, at night he accidentally tries to get into his master’s bed. After a short chase he is caught and whipped by his master, who then sends him to bed again. The man takes some bed sheets, ties them together and climbs out of the window to escape. As one of the knots slipped open, he fell down and felt like he had broken every bone. He finds a cobbler’s stall that had shortly been broken open, where he lies down to sleep. When the cobbler returns the next morning, he thinks that the man broke open his stall and therefore beats him up. Finally, the man gets the opportunity to explain, the cobbler feels pity and apologizes. They part.

			At this point, the story returns to the protagonist and the other man still sitting in an ale house. They agree to change clothes, for some reason. Some people arrive who recognize the clothes the protagonist had stolen before. But as it is the other young man who wears these clothes, they arrest him instead.

			Having no money, he hungers for some time, loosing weight so that he appears “like a walking skeleton” (p. 107). He goes to an inn, where he orders drink and food. As he wants to go to his chamber, the landlady asks for payment in advance, which he cannot offer. She refuses to bargain, so he tries to escape, but is caught, beaten up and his clothes are taken as payment. The next day he steals some bread from a baker. Later he goes to a restaurant, where he takes some food and ale right of the table of two gentlemen, but leaves before they act.

	===Chap. XI p.2-1===		===Chap. XI p.2-1===

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Chap. XXXI, 111-117

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	After leaving the woman he arrives at an inn where he wants to rest. However, the hastler keeps him from doing so by telling him about a rich man who has left a short while ago. The rogue is able to find the man but has to find out that the rich man is not an easy prey. He is able to fire at the rogue and escapes with the rogue’s money and the rogue’s horse. Left with his victim’s horse, the rogue is attacked by five or six rogues. He manages to escape and rests in an unknown place. Unfortunately, someone recognizes the rich man’s horse. One assumes that the rogue has murdered the rich gentleman and decides to hang him for the committed crime. However, the rogue is discharged when the rich gentleman appears. ~~(Anke Herbers)~~		After leaving the woman he arrives at an inn where he wants to rest. However, the hastler keeps him from doing so by telling him about a rich man who has left a short while ago. The rogue is able to find the man but has to find out that the rich man is not an easy prey. He is able to fire at the rogue and escapes with the rogue’s money and the rogue’s horse. Left with his victim’s horse, the rogue is attacked by five or six rogues. He manages to escape and rests in an unknown place. Unfortunately, someone recognizes the rich man’s horse. One assumes that the rogue has murdered the rich gentleman and decides to hang him for the committed crime. However, the rogue is discharged when the rich gentleman appears.

	===Chap. XXXII===		===Chap. XXXII===